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Bruce Augello, a second-time candidate for the Coconut Creek city commission, was accused by his ex-wife in 2004 of beating and biting her.

There is a descriptive police report of a fight he had with Elizabeth Augello on Sept. 3, 2004.

He was arrested and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after the fight, to smooth the situation over, he said.

"Elizabeth stated that during an argument with her husband, he grabbed her and started to push her out of the computer room/ study," the Coconut Creek Police Department’s incident report reads. "Elizabeth stated that during the argument, Bruce bit her on her left forearm and backhanded her across the face. I observed a red mark on the victim's face, several scratches on her right forearm, and teeth marks on her left forearm."

His wife was greatly exaggerating when she spoke to police that night, Augello said, because she was having personal difficulties.

"She later on retracted all that she reported then," he said. "It was a bad time in her life. Her father just died and she had had no relationship with him, and she just wasn't at a good place in her life."

At the time, the police report says, Augello claimed he was defending himself after his wife grabbed at his crotch.

Elizabeth Augello filed for divorce in December of 2004, and it was granted. The two have no children together.